FT#1
Sports
François-Louis Tremblay
born 1980Short track speed skater
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Alma, Quebec
48 famous people were born in Alma
Most widely known is François-Louis Tremblay, the short track speed skater, with articles in 18 languages. Second place goes to the bloc Québécois Canadian politician Lucien Bouchard, third to Mélanie Turgeon. The list runs from Jean-Baptiste Lebel, born in 1888, to Adele Normand, born in 2002. 19 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period.
Born here
48
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
François-Louis Tremblay
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1888
Jean-Baptiste Lebel
Youngest
2002
Adele Normand
Most common field
Sports
17 people
What stands out about Alma’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Alma’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1950s, with 9 births.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageMusicScience & MedicineFaithBusinessNotable
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Alma
#2Politics & Law
Lucien Bouchard
born 1938Bloc Québécois Canadian politician
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Known for
What Alma is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 1.4 times as common.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Alma
Here are 45 more, born from 1888 to 2002.
Jean-Baptiste Lebel
1888–1966BusinessWikipedia (French) ↗
Joël Martel
born 1980Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
Joseph-Léonce Desmeules
1914–1993Politics & LawWikipedia (French) ↗
Rose-Line Brasset
born 1961Writing & ArtsWikipedia (French) ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Saint-Gédéon leads the towns around it, with 5 names.
Questions about famous people from Alma
Who is the most famous person from Alma?
François-Louis Tremblay (short track speed skater) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Lucien Bouchard and Mélanie Turgeon.
How many famous people were born in Alma?
78 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
What is Alma known for?
35% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Alma?
Jean-Baptiste Lebel, from 1888; the most recent birth on the list is from 2002.
Who counts as from Alma?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Alma’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here at the next refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (17)
- Lucien Bouchard: Lionel_jospin_UdeM.jpg : Antoine Taveneaux derivative work: — Riba, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mélanie Turgeon: Hans Bezard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michel Marc Bouchard: Simon Dumas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre Lapointe: Pierre5018, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Hudon: Lindsay A. Mogle, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guillaume Desbiens: goaliej54, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Bergeron: etiennecoutu, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Léandre Bouchard: s.yuki, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcel Lessard: Lesy3605, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lionel Cinq-Mars: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Adele Normand: Kakoula10, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- André Bolduc: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph-Ludger Fillion: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- François Lachance: Nestle19, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jean-Baptiste Lebel: MarieCDu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rose-Line Brasset: Journaliste1961, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Zachary Roy: A Disappearing Act, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).